Mitt Romney to Receive Secret Service Protection
EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney to Receive Secret Service Protection
By Emily Friedman | ABC News 5 hrs ago...
TAMPA - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been informed that it will start receiving Secret Service protection on Thursday, two campaign sources and a senior Republican tell ABC News.
Secret Service protection is being given to the campaign not because of a specific threat but because of the increase in crowd sizes as the primary season has progressed over the past few weeks, according to the sources, who refused to be identified because they don't have authority to comment on such matters publicly.
The Secret Service is charged with protecting presidential candidates in addition to the president himself, and providing protection to a candidate before he secures a nomination has become fairly common. Such decisions are made by the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with congressional leadership.
The Romney campaign, which has long traveled with private security of its own, did not request Service protection, and was approached about the additional security steps in the weeks following the New Hampshire primary, the sources told ABC News.
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MADem
(135,425 posts)But shit--Newt, who's historically been a big baby, will be demanding it now! What about MEEEEEE!!! What about MEEEEEEE!!!!!!
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)agent46
(1,262 posts)He has a good jaw and talks like a corporation would talk. He's the nominee. MSM reports the spin that's necessary for that to be true. We don't know what's really happening.
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)I don't buy it.
JI7
(89,250 posts)they are not happy.
Found in Yonkers
(100 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)That's a big family of Ken dolls to protect. We're all paying for that.
Paying millions for that, just to see him lose in November.
Which I suppose will be worth it.
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)That goes to Super Pacs and donors.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)I think a Swiss Guard contingent may be in order also?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)TBF
(32,062 posts)SS agents ride in the trunk.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)TBF
(32,062 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)waddirum
(979 posts)Suppository
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)Or else someone on twitter was joking.
waddirum
(979 posts)and "flotsam" was Santorum's.
truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)That protection detail will be the busiest of all.